Overview

The Self-Service Bulk Account Creation Tool is provided to the Issuer (Registries) to act as a Participant via upload of a configurable CSV file, which will be consumed and validated by the CSP.

By updating the field details of an Account Creation Request (acct_001) message in the CSV file, developers are able to perform different account creation test scenarios in bulk.

This service allows developers to submit a fixed CSV file containing the account creation information using a cURL command to a REST endpoint. The templates in the CSV file allow more than one record to be provided.

The REST endpoint translates the CSV file to a ISO XML message (Account Creation Request (acct_001)) which is then submitted to the CSP.

The Self-Service Tool will be provided to the Issuer (Registries) to act as a Participant to perform the following initiated requests:

• Create Sponsored, Direct, Settlement Entrepot, Accumulation and Registration Identifier Accounts of Ownership Type “Single” and Holder Type “Company”;
• Create Sponsored and Registration Identifier Accounts of Ownership Type “Single” and Holder Type “Individual”;
• Create Sponsored Accounts of Ownership Type “Joint” and Holder Type “Company” or ”Individual”;  and
• Create a Registration Id (RGID) of Ownership Type "Single" or "Joint".

 The Self-Service Tool will allow the Issuer (Registries) to act as a Participant to facilitate and manage their own internal test use cases acting on behalf of a Participant.  This can be achieved by the following:

• Upload 'CSV' file/s to create Sponsored, Direct, Settlement Entrepot, Accumulation and Registration Identifier Accounts of Ownership Type “Single” and Holder Type “Company”;

• Upload 'CSV' file/s to create Sponsored and Registration Identifier Accounts of Ownership Type “Single” and Holder Type “Individual”;

• Upload 'CSV' file/s to create Sponsored Accounts of Ownership Type “Joint” and Holder Type “Company” or ”Individual”; and
• Upload 'CSV' file/s to create an RGID of Ownership Type "Single" or "Joint".

On success, an Account Notification (account_002) will be sent by the CSP to the Participant for which the account was created for.

If the CSV submitted by the Issuer (Registry) is invalid due to errors in the business validity, an Invalid Transaction (comm_808) is received.

If the CSV submitted by the Issuer (Registry) is invalid due to errors in the file format or schema validity, a rejection from the Self-Service Tool is received. 

These responses are delivered to the REST endpoint, where it is converted to a JSON response.

The sample below is provided as a reference; additional information on the column names and elements present in the CSV can be found on the Account Creation Overview and /wiki/spaces/CSP/pages/66881185.

Sample Template

The file below contains a Excel file template which is used to build the CSV submitting to the cURL. 

When populating the CSV, the developer is required to ensure:

• The message includes the appropriate fields as populated in the attached template; and
• Supplied dates are valid business dates.

Connection details

Prior to establishing connection to the ITE1, the Issuer (Registries) acting as a Participant will need to generate and submit a Certificate Signing Request and acquire the ASX root / issuing CA public key (instructions are available on the FTP). The Issuer (Registries) acting as a Participant is also required to populate the CSV sample file above.

The below code snippet demonstrates how to establish connection to the Self-Service Bulk Account Creation:

curl
    // Verbose output
    -v
                 
    // Informs recipients that the client is about to send a message body in this request and wishes to receive a 100 (continue) interim response
    -H "Expect: 100-continue"

    // ASX’s CA’s public keys in pem format
    --cacert /c/path/to/file.pem
                
    // File containing the certificate of the client machine
    --cert /c/path/to/file.cer
     
    // Private key of the client certificate provided in cert option
    --key /c/path/to/file.key
             
    // The URL of Issuer (Registries) self-service bulk account creation
    // For single bulk account creation, the message name following /xmlIngest/ will be acct001Single.
    // For single bulk account creation (RGID), the message name following /xmlIngest/ will be acct001SingleRGID.
    // For joint bulk account creation, the message name following /xmlIngest/ will be acct001Joint.
    // For joint bulk account creation (RGID), the message name following /xmlIngest/ will be acct001JointRGID.
	"https://ite1-test-tool.asx.com.au:5000/xmlIngest/acct001###"
                 
    // Header option to accept json format (not the same as the CSV file)
    -H "accept: application/json"
                 
    // Header option to tell curl command that it will be form-data in other words file as input
    -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
                 
    // The input CSV file to be sent as part of the request
    -F "file=@/c/path/to/file.csv"

In the above code fragment:  

• URL: The URL for Self-Service Bulk Account Creation is ite1-test-tool.asx.com.au. The local host DNS needs to be reconfigured to 203.4.179.146 to ensure correct routing.  
• Port: The port number exposed for Self-Service Tool.